Bug 283858

Summary:	sys-power/apcupsd: Powerflute no longer compiled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Q Li <compwiz3688>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Q Li 2009-09-06 16:27:34 UTC

Ever since the v3.14.5 release, powerflute is no longer compiled. I depend on this utility for monitoring the device remotely instead of running a web server for each of the computers that the UPS device is connected to. Could somebody please add the configure flags back in, or add a USE flag to let some of us decided?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge apcupsd
2. powerflute


Actual Results:  
powerflute: command not found


Expected Results:  
A text GUI of the apcupsd status and the information of the connected UPS.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-06 18:06:57 UTC

Release notes for apcupsd 3.14.4 [1] show:

  * Powerflute has been disabled. It has been broken for the last several 
    releases because it relied on an untrushworthy source of UPS status
    (rawupsstats) which was itself removed. Powerflute could be converted to
    use the standard NIS status mechanism and its source code remains in
    the tree in case someone has the desire to contribute this code.

[1] http://apcupsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/apcupsd/apcupsd/ReleaseNotes?pathrev=Release-3_14_4